Quotes About Perspective

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was taken prisoner, or go through it all again, I should say, for God's sake let me rather be a prisoner and eat horseflesh again. We imagine that as soon as we are torn out of our habitual path all is over, but it is only the beginning of something new and good. As long as there is life, there is happiness. There is a great deal, a great deal before us.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

If we all took our problems and threw them into a pile next to other people's and saw what they had to deal with, we'd grab our own problems back as fast as we could.

Understandable, Lindsay.

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